About
About Dr. Marino
Dr. Marino was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. She received degrees in Biology and Finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She worked briefly in corporate IT/healthcare related jobs before attending medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. She completed Internal Medicine residency at UT Austin. Since residency, she has worked in both the inpatient and outpatient settings in perioperative medicine, ensuring her clinic patients are optimized for elective surgeries and overseeing medical management of those patients as a hospitalist. Dr. Marino is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She and her husband Trent have a 4-year-old daughter, a 2-year-old son, and a newborn baby boy.
What is Direct Primary Care?
DPC describes a model of general medicine/primary care that involves doctors and their patients only. DPC does not involve insurance companies or any other third parties in the clinical, administrative, or financial management of the physician-patient relationship.
Patients become a member of a DPC practice by paying a monthly fee and in return receive primary care from a physician per a list of healthcare services offered by the physician. At a minimum, patients typically receive all care generally offered by a primary care physician (PCP), including acute care (“sick visits”) and chronic disease management.
Get to Know Marino Medica
Autonomy for the patient and the physician—a well-informed invested role in healthcare for patient and joy and satisfaction in holistic care for physician.
Transparency in cost structures by elimination of the confusion and opacity created by third parties.
As a means to this end, MarinoMedica does not accept insurance. Patients will never receive “surprise bills” from our practice.
Investing in our community by the giving of our time and talents, believing that one of the foundations of Wellness is an outward focus and servanthood as we seek the welfare of our city.
10% of all MarinoMedica profits goes back into the community.
Strategic and meaningful partnerships.
In addition to a referral network with board certified specialists, MarinoMedica partners with healthcare providers outside traditional organized medicine, including physical therapists, accupuncture, registered dietitians, personal trainers, and licensed professional counselors.
Knowledge share and lifelong learning.
What do we stand for?
MarinoMedica exists to connect people to high quality, integrous, and personal primary care in the forms of preventive medicine, holistic care of acute illness, and in-depth investigation into chronic health issues. Dr Marino aims to practice medicine in accordance with her values of patient and physician autonomy, transparency in cost structures, lifelong learning, strategic and meaningful partnerships, and holistic care and servanthood as foundations of wellness.
Why do we exist?
MarinoMedica aims to put the patient first in all clinical decisions and believes that many therapeutic decisions are not one-size-fits-all. Dr. Marino believes that evidence-based medicine is valuable and that alternative diagnostic approaches and therapies should be considered if it’s in the patient’s best interest and the relative risk of those therapies is low. Therefore, Dr. Marino is informed by a mixture of evidence-based medicine sources in addition to functional medicine as a means to holistic patient-centered care. The issues of diet/food, sleep, exercise, and mental health will be addressed with each patient, as these are pieces of a solid foundation for a healthy life.
Healthcare/Wellness Philosophy
What Do We Treat?
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Chronic Disease Management
Hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, anxiety, depression, migraines, asthma, COPD, thyroid, mild autoimmune conditions, anemia, and more
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Acute Issues
Fever, cough, sore throat, earache, allergies, fatigue, hair loss, palpitations, chest pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, anxiety, depression, headaches, tremor, muscle aches, joint pain/swelling, back pain, skin and soft tissue infections (simple I&D), rashes, and more
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General Preventive Medicine
Yearly in-person physical exams, basic labs, and cancer screenings
